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Bill O'Rights · 07-03-2003, 07:52 AM

Parents sue school over secret cameras

 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee middle school allowed security cameras to film children undressing in locker rooms and then stored the images on a computer accessible through the Internet, according to a lawsuit filed by a group of angry parents.

The lawsuit filed last week in federal court in Nashville seeks $4.2 million in damages.

The parents contend the school system violated students' rights by putting hidden cameras in boys and girls locker rooms at Livingston Middle School. The cameras reportedly captured students, ages 10 to 14, in various stages of undress.

EduTech Inc., the company that installed the surveillance cameras in several Overton County schools, also was named in the lawsuit.

Parents learned of the cameras when a student reported a suspicious device in the school at Livingston, about 80 miles east of Nashville.

The lawsuit contends that images captured by the cameras were stored on a hard drive in the office of the assistant principal that could be accessed from remote computers by the Internet. It claims the computer's password security had not been changed from the factory default setting.

The images were reportedly accessed 98 times between July 2002 and January 2003 - sometimes late at night and early in the morning - through Internet providers in Tennessee and South Carolina.

William Needham, director of Overton County Schools, said the assistant principal has been transferred to another school in the system. 

Wtf is going on here? It's bad enough that these images could have been accessed...they were accessed. I have a feeling this goes a hell of a lot deeper, and involves a lot more people than that which the article aludes.

07-03-2003, 07:52 AM	#1 (permalink)
Bill O'Rights will always be an Alyson Hanniganite Location: In the dust of the archives	Parents sue school over secret cameras <b>Parents sue school over secret cameras</b> <i> NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee middle school allowed security cameras to film children undressing in locker rooms and then stored the images on a computer accessible through the Internet, according to a lawsuit filed by a group of angry parents. The lawsuit filed last week in federal court in Nashville seeks $4.2 million in damages. The parents contend the school system violated students' rights by putting hidden cameras in boys and girls locker rooms at Livingston Middle School. The cameras reportedly captured students, ages 10 to 14, in various stages of undress. EduTech Inc., the company that installed the surveillance cameras in several Overton County schools, also was named in the lawsuit. Parents learned of the cameras when a student reported a suspicious device in the school at Livingston, about 80 miles east of Nashville. The lawsuit contends that images captured by the cameras were stored on a hard drive in the office of the assistant principal that could be accessed from remote computers by the Internet. It claims the computer's password security had not been changed from the factory default setting. The images were reportedly accessed 98 times between July 2002 and January 2003 - sometimes late at night and early in the morning - through Internet providers in Tennessee and South Carolina. William Needham, director of Overton County Schools, said the assistant principal has been transferred to another school in the system. </i> Wtf is going on here? It's bad enough that these images <b>could</b> have been accessed...they <b>were</b> accessed. I have a feeling this goes a hell of a lot deeper, and involves a lot more people than that which the article aludes. __________________ "I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B. Anthony "Hedonism with rules isn't hedonism at all, it's the Republican party." - JumpinJesus It is indisputable that true beauty lies within...but a nice rack sure doesn't hurt.